Michaels/Batista at Backlash (spoilers)

[NeanderCarl]

Originally Posted by addy2hotty The writers are pretty much clueless, which is why I'm not surprised that Regal won KOTR.

Fixed.

But yeah, it's no good ripping on Jericho (and Carlito, and Shelton, and all the rest of the so-called "lazy" crew) for not producing the goods when they're given a pile of wank to work with.

No more than you could blame an actor for a film being absolutely abysmal. If the script is abysmal, the premise is abysmal, the support cast is abysmal and in some cases the actor has been horribly miscast (say Jack Black as James Bond, or Samuel L. Jackson as The Joker in a Batman movie) then it should come as no surprise if the movie sucks even if the lead acts his heart out in it.

I'm not saying they deserve NO blame for not trying harder to turn the lemons into delicious lemonade, but when you're banging your head against a brick wall 365 days a year, it must be pretty easy to become disheartened. When you're told you need to "step up your game", yet every step of your 3 minute match is pre-planned, the interviews are scripted word-for-word and you're having no leeway to bring anything of your own into the equation, what the fuck are they supposed to do?